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Re: Ask HN: Are there any rural tech communities?

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Post by brightball »

sh_123 wrote: post #295
brightball wrote: post #17

I don't know if it qualifies for your standard but Greenville, SC and its surrounding areas (Traveler's Rest, Simpsonville, Easley, Greer) have a blossoming tech community over the last 10 years. I'm one of the admins for our main tech Slack group and there's about 1,400 of us in there at last count. Beautiful downtown area around a waterfall, tons of biking, near mountains and 3 lakes. House prices are through the r…

After going fully remote my fiancée and I recently moved back. The changes in Greenville over the past several years are staggering. Tons of growth! I’d like to get plugged back into the tech community here. Could I grab an invite to the slack group? hahn.shot.first@gmail.com

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Re: Ask HN: Are there any rural tech communities?

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Post by TZubiri »

justin66 wrote: post #282
TZubiri wrote: post #244

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So the US would stop producing food and import it instead? First, why? Second, from an ecological perspective this wouldn't change anything, just shift shit around. Ridiculous, stop.

> So the US would stop producing food and import it instead? Is that how US agricultural interests would react if they had to compete on the free market? They would simply give up and let the land lie fallow?

You just said government would lift tariffs. Most of the land would go to a monoculture for export. The only land that would grow diverse foods for domestic consumption would be to cater to the demand for local consumption. And in the world where government lifted tariffs, we must assume that they acted in representation of the people, so that demand mustn't be so high.

This is pretty basic.

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Post by rdtwo »

TZubiri wrote: post #244
justin66 wrote: post #180

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> Rural productivity is vital to urban concentration. Raw material does not come from the depths of the subway system, nor do the land and seaports magically produce goods. Food, fiber, fuel, etc come from the rural reaches. We pay a premium to buy food from the rural US in the form of common import tariffs that stifle or eliminate competition at the expense of the consumer and to the benefit of agricultural interest…

So the US would stop producing food and import it instead? First, why? Second, from an ecological perspective this wouldn't change anything, just shift shit around. Ridiculous, stop.

The food you eat as a wealthy person is probably in a good part produced in other parts of the world due to cheap labor. Sure we provide lots of corn and and soy but a lot of that is for export fuel and meat production

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Post by pineconewarrior »

rmason wrote: post #94
pineconewarrior wrote: post #77

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Traverse City is becoming very techy. Over the course of the pandemic I have witnessed a lot of folks coming in from Chicago, etc, to work remotely, or to do tech work for one of the decent web/it/finance/insurance/medical companies here. P.S. we are hiring web dev and analytics/data engineer if you know anyone in the area!

Traverse City is amazing, but you already know that ;<). However I have problems dealing with winter in East Lansing so I can only imagine how bad it would be up there. You better like snowmobiling or skiing. But for seven months out of the year it's absolute perfection.

You're not wrong about that. The winters can be pretty long. It's snowing as I type

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Post by pineconewarrior »

blown_gasket wrote: post #117
pineconewarrior wrote: post #77

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Traverse City is becoming very techy. Over the course of the pandemic I have witnessed a lot of folks coming in from Chicago, etc, to work remotely, or to do tech work for one of the decent web/it/finance/insurance/medical companies here. P.S. we are hiring web dev and analytics/data engineer if you know anyone in the area!

Maybe you could enlighten me on what you see as becoming very techy about Traverse City. When it comes to the companies that I've seen there you have: - Small computer repair shops competing with big box computer repair - Hagerty Insurance - Munson Healthcare (the only health care provider in the 30 mile radius that I'm aware of). - Finance - There are a couple of banks and credit unions but most of the investment fi…

- asure

- atlas space

- oneupweb

- midmark

- salamander

- efulfillment

- 20fathoms

- Healthbridge

to name a few off the top of my head

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Post by tclancy »

mandelbrotwurst wrote: post #195
tclancy wrote: post #91

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Yeah, here in Southern NH near Portsmouth/ UNH there’s a strong tech scene but you’re also close to fairly rural areas.

Hi, what sorts of companies are in that area please?

What sorts? How do you mean?

Re: Ask HN: Are there any rural tech communities?

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Post by mandelbrotwurst »

tclancy wrote: post #316
mandelbrotwurst wrote: post #195

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Hi, what sorts of companies are in that area please?

What sorts? How do you mean?

I should have asked a slightly different question - I was just looking for any information you could share around what the tech scene is like there, i.e. what kinds of things are people working on, what specific companies, anything that be worth checking out if you're new there, etc.

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Post by tclancy »

mandelbrotwurst wrote: post #317
tclancy wrote: post #316

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What sorts? How do you mean?

I should have asked a slightly different question - I was just looking for any information you could share around what the tech scene is like there, i.e. what kinds of things are people working on, what specific companies, anything that be worth checking out if you're new there, etc.

Man, I am not sure how to answer that. It's close enough to Boston that pretty much any type of tech you're interested probably has a presence within an hour's drive. My email is just my handle at gmail so feel free to ping me to see if/ how I could answer better.
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